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By PAT HAGAN – REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 19:31 EDT, 10 August 2025 | Updated: 19:34 EDT, 10 August 2025 <\/p>\n

Forget all those costly anti-ageing creams or wrinkle-busting Botox<\/a> jabs.<\/p>\n

The real secret to staying young could be simply eating a handful of peanuts every day.<\/p>\n

Scientists have discovered it slows down cellular ageing \u2013 the rate at which all cells in the human body get old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rapid cellular ageing is linked to heart disease, cancer<\/a> and type 2 diabetes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But snacking daily on peanuts could slow the process, according to findings published in the journal Antioxidants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A team of experts from the University of Barcelona decided to investigate after other studies found eating foods rich in antioxidants may reduce the rate at which cells age.<\/p>\n

Antioxidants, found in plant foods, fight off the effects of harmful molecules in the body called free radicals \u2013 which can damage healthy cells.<\/p>\n

The researchers got 58 young, healthy volunteers to either snack on 25g of peanuts every day for six months, or a daily serving of peanut butter.<\/p>\n

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The real secret to staying young could be simply eating a handful of peanuts every day. Scientists have discovered it slows down cellular ageing \u2013 the rate at which all cells in the human body get old (Stock photo)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rapid cellular ageing is linked to heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes . But snacking daily on peanuts could slow the process, according to findings published in the journal Antioxidants (Stock photo)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A team of experts from the University of Barcelona\u00a0got 58 young, healthy volunteers to either snack on 25g of peanuts every day for six months, or a daily serving of peanut butter (Stock photo)<\/p>\n

The recruits regularly provided saliva samples for scientists to check their DNA for telomere length \u2013 protective caps at the ends of chromosomes.<\/p>\n

Telomeres gradually shorten as the body ages, but slowing down the rate that they do could help us live longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The researchers found that, over the six-month period, the rate at which telomere length in the peanut group shortened was almost half that seen in the peanut butter group.<\/p>\n

The findings in the report said: ‘Telomere shortening has been linked to age-related diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘But peanut consumption may help to mitigate these risks.’<\/p>\n

However, they added it’s best sticking to unsalted peanuts, to avoid driving up blood pressure.<\/p>\n

Britons consume almost 180,000 tonnes of peanuts every year and demand is slowly increasing.<\/p>\n

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